Objectives: Simulation methodologies are integral to health professional education at all
levels of training and across all disciplines. This article reviews the literature on simulation in …

Context Most medical doctors are likely to work with patients experiencing mental health
conditions. However, educational opportunities for medical doctors to achieve professional …

Special Article Creating, Monitoring, and Improving a Psychiatry OSCE Page 1 Special Article
134 Academic Psychiatry, 26:3, Fall 2002 Creating, Monitoring, and Improving a Psychiatry …

The use of standardized patients has been reported as a viable addition to traditional
models of professional practice education in medicine, nursing and allied health programs …

Standardized patients (SPs) are a widely used, valid, and reliable means of teaching and
evaluating healthcare providers (HCPs) across all levels of training and across multiple …

Simulated patients (SP) contribute to health professional education for communication,
clinical skills teaching, and assessment. Although a significant body of literature exists on …

Objective Previous studies have shown that people who act as simulated patients (SPs)
experience negative effects caused by performing patient roles. This study was performed to …

Assessment of competency in traditional graduate medical education has been based on
observation of clinical care and classroom teaching. In anesthesiology, this has been …

Objective Twenty years ago researchers at the University of Toronto launched the Psychiatry
Skills Assessment Project (PSAP), a research program exploring Objective Structured …

Allied health programmes worldwide have reported increasing difficulty in finding sufficient
traditional clinical placements for students within the workplace. As a result, some …